Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-29
READS LIRE A ROMANCE.
The Test to Which q Georgian Put His
Relatives and the Amends he Made.
Mpmnhfs Avalanche

ATLANTA, GA, Sept. 25.-A pretty lit
tie romance has just eliminated in Rs
burn county. AZ the bsse of Tiger Noun
tain, half 4 mile off the main road lead
ing to Clsyton, there lives snail farmer
named George w. Dillsrd. Mr.. billiard
Is about sixty years Of sge, living with
his wife and two sons, the latter aged re
spectively thirty and twenty-five.
Early that summer Mr. billiard went to
his neighoorhood postofffce, where he
found aWeiting him letter covered over
with postmgrks, whicn denoted thst it
had Travelled long distance to reach it's
destination. The superscription was
written in familiar hand, but one
which he had not seen in Q generation.
he tore the seal and read the missive,
and sure enough iouad it 10 be from ms
Wite'S mother, whom ne had seen FIR tie
last time in 1919. g
! at that time James McCurry wss g
young man, as was also George W
| DilIsrG.. Tae news had reached Georgis
Of the wonderful 90 discoveries in COL
! fOrnia. Young GeoTgians who had gone
there had written back glowing accounts
of the fortunes which We're being made
The descriptions had the effect of draw
ing still others toward the great
EldoredO.
Among those wno were full of the ex-
citement were McCurry and billiard.
They had perfected all arrangements to
| 60, end were bidding the family good
| bye when billiard faltered. The tesrfuI
eyes OF McCdrry's young sister touched
MS heart, especially as she was weeping
for him and not Tor her brother Throw
! ing down the bundle he held in his hand,
he declared that he would stay if the girl
would marry him. To this sne cheerfuliy
sgreed. SO Dillsrd remained Georgia
farmer, while McCurry jumped into the
stage coach and was borne away.
Since that time he had never been
heard of. 1t YVES with mingled feelings,
therefore, that billiard started to resd
the letter from his Old comrede Tnp
letter was sOiied one. McCurry stated
that ne had worked against adverse ior.
tune, delaying writing to the folks until
he could strike it rich, bat every year
found him striking it poorer, and now
! Old, feeble ard poor, his great wish was
TO look once more upon his native
hills; that be could not do
so unless he was sent money
enough upon which to return Mr. Dill
| lard read the letter to his wife and sons
eve must send him the money" said the
old man, SO 8 cow and mule were sold
and the money went on its mission across
| the continent.
Several months brought another letter
in which the old man expressed his CRATE
fulness for the kindness done him, but
he was toe sick to travel then. After
! that no more was heard from him until
last Saturday, when e large oficisI en-
velope was received st the little post
office. II bore the inscription of strange
hand. The neighhors one by one dropped
by and told billiard shout its az
rival. 1t YVES too lat for him to get il
then, but he was on hand early Monday
morning. AS he resd it his hands trem-
5led. It recited that Mr.. James NfcCurry
was dead; that he wished to test the
fidelity Of his sisters family that their
prompt answer to his appeal had moved
him, and that by his will, his property in
California, valued at $1,000, 600, was
wllled in equal parts to his sister, her
husband and their TWO sons. The two
young men are going to Californig to
superintend the property, which they
intend to convert into cash, wheu they
will return to Georgia.